NT Police suspend search for pilot Bob Bramley, plane crash wreckage after 'extensive multi-day' effort

Bob Bramley was flying over the Gulf of Carpentaria on Tuesday morning when his plane went down, triggering a multi-day search by authorities and Indigenous rangers on Groote Eylandt. ( Supplied ) NT Police have suspended the search for 23-year-old pilot Bob Bramley after scouring Groote Eylandt waters, including targeted dives, for days. Mr Bramley is still unaccounted-for and believed to have died in Tuesday's plane crash, as tributes flow mourning the much-loved Tasmanian pilot. It comes after sonar searches and targeted dive efforts, supported by local Indigenous rangers, located pieces of aircraft debris on the sea floor. The search for missing 23-year-old pilot Bob Bramley in the Gulf of Carpentaria has been suspended by NT Police "following an extensive multi-day search involving air, marine and specialist dive resources". The young Tasmania pilot was believed to be the sole occupant aboard a small Air Frontier charter plane when it reportedly crashed in Angurugu waters, off the coast of Groote Eylandt, on Tuesday .

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